[Miscellaneous overland accounts to California and Oregon in the 1840s and 50s, compiled by Eugene Compton]. [1890-1936]

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[Miscellaneous overland accounts to California and Oregon in the 1840s and 50s, compiled by Eugene Compton]. [1890-1936]

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Reproductions of four published titles relating to overland journeys to California and Oregon in the 1840s and 1850s, bound together in leather with gold spine lettering. The last title has inserted a reproduction of an obituary hand-dated Oct. 15, 1936, and several photographs mounted on plain paper.

1 v. ; 29 cm.

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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